M S MURTHY: MS Murthy was born in 1960 in Bangalore. He has a diploma in Fine Art and Modeling. He has held several solo exhibitions in India. He has presented papers at art seminars and curated art shows.
His works can be found at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi and in many private collections in India and abroad. Murthy is also the Hon. Editor for Canvas, a magazine on art and artists and regularly contributes a column on sensitivity for Udayavani, a Kannada daily. The Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hossein Ravesh flew down to Bangalore to bestow the recent second International Biennale Award on Murthy from the Iran Academy Of Art